226 Episodes

  1. Episode 122: National Identity and the British Musical — From Blood Brothers to Cinderella.

    Published: 9/28/2023
  2. Special Encore Episode: Katherine Dunham & Agnes DeMille — The Craft & Art Of Broadway Choreography

    Published: 9/21/2023
  3. Episode 121: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood: CABARET, part 4

    Published: 9/14/2023
  4. Episode 120: Further Adapting Broadway To Hollywood

    Published: 9/7/2023
  5. Episode 119: More Adapting BROADWAY to HOLLYWOOD

    Published: 8/31/2023
  6. Episode 118: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood, part 1

    Published: 8/24/2023
  7. Episode 117: POD SWAP! Broadway Nation meets A Musical Theatre Podcast

    Published: 8/17/2023
  8. Episode 116: Further Histories of the Musical Theatre

    Published: 8/10/2023
  9. Episode 115: More "Histories" of Musical Theatre

    Published: 8/3/2023
  10. Episode 114: Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding The Narrative

    Published: 7/27/2023
  11. Special Encore Episode: DOROTHY FIELDS and the Women Who Invented Broadway!

    Published: 7/20/2023
  12. Episode 113: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical

    Published: 7/13/2023
  13. Episode 112: Careful The Spell You Cast, part 2

    Published: 7/5/2023
  14. Episode 111: Careful The Spell You Cast — How Stephen Sondheim Extended The Range of the American Musical.

    Published: 6/29/2023
  15. Special Encore Episode: "I Am What I Am" — Gay Liberation & the AIDS Crisis on Broadway!

    Published: 6/22/2023
  16. Encore Episode: Cole Porter & The Queers Who Invented Broadway

    Published: 6/15/2023
  17. Episode 110: THE SHAPE OF A MUSICAL

    Published: 6/8/2023
  18. Episode 109: IT'S ALL ABOUT STORYTELLING!

    Published: 6/1/2023
  19. Encore Episode: Trude Rittmann & The Women Who Invented Broadway

    Published: 5/25/2023
  20. Episode 108: MY FRIEND SANDY, part 2

    Published: 5/18/2023

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A lively and opinionated cultural history of the Broadway Musical that tells the extraordinary story of how Immigrants, Jews, Queers, African-Americans and other outcasts invented the Broadway Musical, and how they changed America in the process.In Season One, host David Armstrong traces the evolution of American Musical Theater from its birth at the dawn of the 20th Century, through its mid-century “Golden Age”, and right up to its current 21st Century renaissance; and also explore how musicals have reflected and shaped our world -- especially in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and equality.